Lottery Fever. What are your range of thoughts in response to Lucky Winners?

[alastantiger]

In the United states and in some other countries around the world, lotteries are a big deal. They constitute a major part in shaping their cultural and economic atmosphere. Of course they are also operated legally. Wikipedia says that Americans spent $5 billion on various lotteries in 2017 and  $77.7 billion in 2018.

I have observed that there is a U.S., lottery fever from looking at regular headlines about lucky winners. Recent examples include:

- A Virginia woman who became a two-time lottery millionaire after winning $1 million.
- Another Virginian who won a $3 million Mega Millions jackpot with a ticket purchased just weeks earlier.
- A California resident who claimed a $1 billion Powerball prize, one of the largest jackpots in history.
- A man who won $2.6 million on a scratch-off ticket gifted to him by his father.
- A woman who quit her job after scratching off a $90,000 lottery windfall.

If you are reading this and you actively participate in lotteries as an regular player, these kind of lottery success stories can evoke a lot of emotions and responses. Which of these range of thoughts and feelings do you experience;

• my time is near
• it can't happen to me
• I wish I could win, even if it meant lower jackpots
• Indifferent

News Headline source - https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/lottery/2024/04/04/kentucky-lottery-winner-scratch-off/73206551007/
Wikipedia source - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotteries_in_the_United_States

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[Oshosondy]

I do not have it in mind that I can win lottery. Also I am not expecting any big win in gambling. If it is lottery or gambling, my expectations are very low and I am not expecting to win anything, especially in lottery. But probably one day can be in my favour but I do not expect that day to come.

[Betwrong]

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If you are reading this and you actively participate in lotteries as an regular player, these kind of lottery success stories can evoke a lot of emotions and responses. Which of these range of thoughts and feelings do you experience;

• my time is near
• it can't happen to me
• I wish I could win, even if it meant lower jackpots
• Indifferent

News Headline source - https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/lottery/2024/04/04/kentucky-lottery-winner-scratch-off/73206551007/
Wikipedia source - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotteries_in_the_United_States

I wouldn't mind winning something much lower compared to those Jackpot winners, something like that what that woman who quit her job after winning has won. But seriously, I would be very happy about winning $500 too. For sure I can't think like "it can't happen to me", but I know that the chances are low. Yet I keep hoping that "my time is near", I'll tell you that much.

[KiaKia]

A win is a win.

I don't even want to win this big like those lottery winners.

I want something similar but from my investment instead of gambling.

To all lottery winners, you guys are simply lucky is all, I won't dare embark on the journey of hoping to win a lottery, I believe that it will mess my mind up to much.

I prefer spending less on luck-based things and spending more on businesses, investments, and others, risks are present but one is bigger than others.

Expecting low results from gambling is all I do, and I feel more healthy this way.

[Jawhead999]

- A woman who quit her job after scratching off a $90,000 lottery windfall.

Isn't stupid for the woman to quit her job? I know that $90,000 is really big for most people including myself, but she live in United States where the average annual salary is $50K, such amount is only 2 years annual salaries. $90K will really make she happy, but it's not something that can change her life.

• my time is near
• it can't happen to me
• I wish I could win, even if it meant lower jackpots
• Indifferent

I voted the third option, it's better to earn less with higher chance to win than earn big amount with almost impossible chance to win.

[angrybirdy]

I do not have it in mind that I can win lottery. Also I am not expecting any big win in gambling. If it is lottery or gambling, my expectations are very low and I am not expecting to win anything, especially in lottery. But probably one day can be in my favour but I do not expect that day to come.

Same thoughts, I always say  that if something is meant for me, I can get it at unexpected times or opportunities. I also avoid hoping to win in lottery or any gambling activity because sometimes, the more we hope, the more we don't get what we want. I know that it's kinda impossible to win because there's a lot of people playing it and the chances of winning is very low but as an optimist type of person, I manifesting to win even if it's in lowest prize.

[kotajikikox]

Which of these range of thoughts and feelings do you experience;

• my time is near

This will give gamblers another thing to stay in gambling and stay longer in this kind of gambling.

• it can't happen to me

desperation in this part , and for me? this is much better to think to how we can survive and forget to gamble finally in future.

• I wish I could win, even if it meant lower jackpots
• Indifferent

well that is better to expect , to look for small jackpot instead of that high expectation .

[DabsPoorVersion]

If you are reading this and you actively participate in lotteries as an regular player, these kind of lottery success stories can evoke a lot of emotions and responses. Which of these range of thoughts and feelings do you experience;

• my time is near
• it can't happen to me
• I wish I could win, even if it meant lower jackpots
• Indifferent

I am more of a man who always thinks of what I want. I like to manifest the positive things and I believe that the more you think, the more you attract luck and the possibility of winning. So, I always think of "my time is near".

I know in lotteries that luck will always be the only way to win jackpots. Based on my experience, gambling is unpredictable, especially in luck-based games. Winning will always come to us in a very unexpected situation, but that's the more reason why I always manifest the things I want which is to win a jackpot.

[bakasabo]

I have tried playing lotteries few times when I was much younger, but I was never a huge fun of them. First of all lotteries in my countries are not as popular as in US. Jackpot is greatly lower; I think we have hundred thousands euro jackpot, and I think I saw ads with "win a million in a lottery". Anyway jackpots arent as huge as in US. Second reason is that I like to find if I lose or win instantly. I dont like waiting for draw. Scratch cards arent for me also. I would say that reward experience in other gambling activities raises no interest in lotteries for me.

[aioc]

If you are reading this and you actively participate in lotteries as an regular player, these kind of lottery success stories can evoke a lot of emotions and responses. Which of these range of thoughts and feelings do you experience;

• my time is near
• it can't happen to me

Hope springs eternal everytime I'm betting in a lottery I imagine myself the next winner, lottery bettors knows that its very hard to win in a lottery, but there's always a winner in a lottery so every winner has equal chance for all bettors.
So I picked this two options my time is near and it can happen to me because if you're going to be the winner you should at least prepare to be one.

[Wexnident]

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I'm in between being indifferent about it and "what'd I'd do I wonder if it was me" kind of mindset. It's not something wrong imo, imagining being in place of someone who got immensely lucky in something (or even someone famous in general really) is something at least all humans have done at least once in their entire lives. Might be happening to me more often though but hey, nothing wrong with imagining if it's kept with me. Sometimes I'm just left with indifference since I know it's not something a "what if" can solve, so I just let it be.

I still play lotteries sometimes, usually whenever there's a meaningful date since I use that and a bunch of other random combinations to use as card combinations for my tickets.

[Assface16678]

In my country, the lottery is very popular. In every place, you will see lottery outlets that sell tickets to the players, and you will not see an outlet that doesn't have a player that is participating in it. That's also why the price of each lottery event is so high in a short time. Even though the price is a very huge amount, not all people will win it, and you are not sure that the winners are actually real people. Because there's a recent incident in my country that talks about the suspicious lucky winner of the lottery, the image of the winner is so edited that many people notice it. That's why I also lose hope in the lottery in my country because I think it is possible that the government will fabricate the winner in order to claim the prize and maybe recycle it or what.

[stomachgrowls]

I wish I could win, even if it meant lower jackpots

It would really be good on hitting up millions because that would really be a life changing amount which its normal but i do even wish on hitting up a few tens or hundred of thousands. On which it would
really be that an amount that could changed up my life and would be able to make some business and would retire early from my day job.
This is why its not really that surprising that lottery would really be making out that kind of bigger pool.

Here in our country usually the amount of lottery being pooled doesnt really bloat or make that bigger amount because it is really just that too easy
for it to be win.Unlike on other countries on which it is really that hard to win up those lotteries on which it would really be making out that kind of question in mind
on how the heck is this happening.

[Davidvictorson]

In my country, we do not have the lottery fever like the US do. Although there's a company called Baba Ijebu lotto that works something similar to it but I don't see any one enthusiastic about it.

Reading the headlines of people who have won the lottery only got me feeling like I were the one. I think of the good life the jackpot would bring me and after 20 minutes or so, I am back to my normally self.

I have never seen anyone who buys a lottery tick who isn't optimistic but it seems that it is the less optimistic or indifferent people who end up winning.

[Don Pedro Dinero]

My response is the following:

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.

I play the lottery from time to time, but more for social reasons than anything else. Playing every week and playing several games is putting hope in something where the odds are against you. It is better to put that money in something that will potentially favor you in the future, like buying bitcoin.

[robelneo]

If you are reading this and you actively participate in lotteries as an regular player, these kind of lottery success stories can evoke a lot of emotions and responses. Which of these range of thoughts and feelings do you experience;

• my time is near
• it can't happen to me
• I wish I could win, even if it meant lower jackpots
• Indifferent

I'm a lottery owner and my thought after my bet is my time is near because you never know because all the lottery bettor owners do not know if they are going to win, they hold on to the thought that they are going to be the next winner until it happens.

I congratulate those winners even if they are new bettors or have been betting for many years the fact that they've won when it's against all odds to win, fate has led them to win that jackpot and I have to congratulate for hitting the jackpot.

[Wapfika]

- A woman who quit her job after scratching off a $90,000 lottery windfall.

This news surely a result of a fever. I can’t imagine quoting my job by just winning 90K USD although it’s already huge but not enough to secure my future without my job. Her decision is probably due to impulse of winning or she really doesn’t like her job for her to quit with this amount of money which is probably a year worth of salary on their country.

What kind of response to the winner are you trying to get here OP? Aside from the woman winning back to back. The shows how Virginia is very lucky to have a lot of lottery winners.

[Gozie51]

Maybe I was hopeful to win a lottery ticket far back in time not now. Maybe I have become more knowledgeable and wiser to know such winning is not for everybody so I have to treat it with some unseriousness and don't keep my hope on it

In my jurisdiction, there has also been allegation of manipulation of the numbers that will become the winning numbers for the jackpot. Although this has not been proven but it is making the customers have some doubts in their mind.

[Yogee]

I also wish to win but it's ironic for me since I seldom buy lottery tickets hehe. Buying some meme coins early hoping it would do 1000x has a higher chance of happening that winning the lottery.

- A woman who quit her job after scratching off a $90,000 lottery windfall.

Isn't stupid for the woman to quit her job? I know that $90,000 is really big for most people including myself, but she live in United States where the average annual salary is $50K, such amount is only 2 years annual salaries. $90K will really make she happy, but it's not something that can change her life.

You forgot to take into account the taxes which is also pretty high in US. Her net winning was worth $64,800 after taxes so that only about one year. The article also stated that she's unhappy with her for job so winning the lottery gave her a breathing space while she looks for another one.

[LFC_Bitcoin]

About 15 years ago my then gf (now wife) bought a Euromillions ticket. The jackpot was €85,000,000 if I recall correctly. To win the Euromillions jackpot you need to get all 5 numbers correct and the 2 stars. Any way to cut a long story short we got 4 numbers and 2 stars.

I was looking at the numbers on our ticket, frantically checking the numbers online, thinking we’d won something big. Turns out it’s a lot more important to get 5 numbers regardless of how many stars you get. We got 4 out of the 5 numbers and 2 stars. We won approx €4,000 which is nice obviously but not life changing. If we had got 5 numbers & 0 stars or 5 numbers and 1 star it was six figures.

Funnily enough my gf picked the number 24 (which was the 1 incorrect number) and the number we needed to win €85,000,000 was 23. I don’t think I’ll ever forget this experience sadly.